The evening world. Newspaper, November 21, 1919, Page 40

© THE NEW PLAYS » Chariotte Greenwood Speeds “Linger Longer Letty” to Success |} By CHARLES DARNTON | the walls of the Fulton Theatre are not kicked into the alley one of | these nights, the stage doorman shoulg fall at the feet of Charlotte | Greenwood and offer up thanks that he is still on the job. | - With her Woolworthian style of architecture, Miss Greenwood |s In action she suggests a human semaphore. Sho flings herself bout in a reckless way and accordingly speeds “Linger Longer Letty” to ) @eocess. Her legs and arms are her fortune, though her face is by no @ liability. She ts, in fact, a woman with a pretty face. A little her goes a long way—in other words, she lacks variety. She is a clown, ‘& comediennt, but as a clown she is the funniest woman on our stage. | ‘The comedy by Anna Nichols goes to the kitchen, in which Letty! 8 hard that slic goes on strike against her socially ambitious sisters. | tally, the music by Alfred Goodman is just one jazz after another. fg nothing distinctive about the whole show. It's the sort of thing aay like if you Bappen to like that sort of thing. Letty comes out of Ketehen and tWoks like a blue-glass window. But her good nature sunshine to the scene. She outshines her sisters so completely they are left in the shade, and she finally flops into the arms of a who has served his time in the navy. be Howland was amusing as the “gob” who came back and rigged | up in evening clothes, but he did not have so good a part as Anne gave him in “She's a Good Fellow.” He had to fall back on his | @mmcing, and he danced cleverly. ‘Two tots, Frances Victory and Bernice Hirsch, were amusing. The, youngster lived up to her name of Victory by dancing and singing ly. The chorus girls were pretty, in spite of their costumes— <*he fashion show had at least the merit of revelation. But Miss d was really the whole show, and she made it thoroughly enter- ‘About Plays ; and Players By BIDE DUDLEY KNRY MILLER and Blanche; Seamon unearthed was in the form of i] Bates, who haye been appear- | & Valentine and was given out at Wal- | “ ” jack's Theatre on Keb, 20, 1876, on the ing in “Mollere,” are to COM-| occasion of the one hundredth per- | 4p co-stars. Their next vebicle /formance of “The Shaughraun.” In be & piay called “The Famous | his Ln y - ed wig fogna ay Fair,” written by James Forbes. | Contract, made out, in han lp rd] ing the professional services of reals bave berun under Mr. Mil- | Riancho Ring. It stipulated that Mixa Ring was to receive $40 a week froin) Hurtig & Seamon for her vaudeville 8. She receives more than P that’ now, Gi A. H, Woods il stage soon a play ing lately, and| melodrama by Willard Mack, en- pr Pdulta writing” woll,|\ Edwin Raikin, ‘Yiddish impresart a a a) lo, will produce “Friendly Enemies" in the Jewish language. Florence Shirley of “Apple Blos- soms” says New York ts threatened with a tea famine Looks like a, calamitea, Twenty Keith acts will go to Blackwell's Island Thanksgiving morning and entertain the prisoners. you tr” Two hundred students from New ng.” Feplled | the, “Hitehy Tight ‘and applauded thelr" former | ¥ " appla ir former a » “I've seen it ya mate, Dorothy Gilbert. Ca Rose Morrison, “In a tug of war.” last geen in “Dark Rosaleen,” have answer! been for roles in “Sunrise.” i Wilbur is to furnish the book Irving Berlin the lyrics and for a new musical comedy, Mr. n wrote the incidental music for) fmvnebxzcads years old. ‘Wilbur's play, “The Haunted] Joe Plunkett writes from Paris that | “olin,” silver money is #0 scarce over there ‘ a A NEW COMBINATION. ann ’ they give a person matches and| *TWOULD BE A RIOT. amps a chon et b . Dancer,” . Al a sen! ia checl for) De dane vinden, Santa torknoe cotst ($1,000 for a neat at the Bert Leslie “Weald happen to the Cheese Club if} benefit at the Cohan & Harris Thea- of White Rats should bust | Fy cio att pel Buirke, who was borned | oe = mentines Gan, me! ‘and raised up in Harlem, is back in ELSIE MAD AT MiSs JANIS, | tat village singing at the Alhambra Janis, actress, is mad at Eiste &c. Ubrettist, because the latter fo hundred men, delegates to the & book for the former's new | International Trade Conference, rep- made resenting France, Great Britain, ‘es entertainment. Italy, Belgium and the United States, tt Elsie Janis refuse to pay | wii! visit the Capitol Theatre to-mor- | Janis her royalty and—oh, yes,|row night. H George M. — ; TO INQUIRY. ere are at least sores ples “Friendly Enemies” and al- been. A is pr@bably think- ing ‘Under Orders,” in which Lait of Chicago ls now Shelley Hull and Effie Shannon were ! producer, He is presenting on | the entire cast. : Suratt in bis new play, and White.” The show is} @ THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. for, Chicago. Jom Nutt bes written, the Prince B AAT asking reas TO HONOR A TEACHER. Seeat sole cabs be bettaven be covla ee a will celebrate | get a lot of stuff in the papers about Wer Aftieth anniversary as a teacher | the royal visitor. a r een ne. 3, Grove oe a . londay evening. FOOLISHMENT. ® will be specches, dining and &| rrore tn which will be seen, as ac- | 7” toa‘ young fellow named gome of the grown-up boys that Pope, Bila used to spank. Who had an aversion to soap. SOME OLD RELICS. pend 6M cadpapreuedl Seamon was looking through| 4A¢ any guy ought ter, r yesterday and ran across some | But soap ts no l—no, ; J iyi | sou shire “One bi ip goa sir; nope!” programme of Bryant's Minstrels, st Bryant's Opera House, on 23d Street,} FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. Oct, 21, 1873. One line read:| “If I were that, cigarmaker I'd Felicity will eyentuate at 8|change my name,” “The ollo was billed as a] “What is his name?” D'Ethiope.” A souvenir Mr.! “Roper.” children who appeared to Satrarswas,gppeared te be on tate AN EARLY START. Jum ped. 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